Set against the backdrop of the Korean War, this 1955 interracial love story was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won three: for Best Costume Design, Alfred Newman's four-hankie musical score, and the melancholic title song. A luminous Jennifer Jones earned an Oscar nomination as Eurasian doctor Han Suyin, who meets an American correspondent (William Holden) stationed in Hong Kong. She is captivated by his tenderness and insight, and he finds her beauty and grace equally irresistible. Their passionate affair is as inevitable as it is tragic. The film is based on an autobiographical novel by the real-life Han Suyin.